When I asked friends and colleagues in the arts world for recommendations on where to eat before or after a show, many responded that there were too few places that stay open late for a post-show dinner. Several bemoaned the lack of late-night venues, saying eating before a show is always rushed and ends up making you feel drowsy during the performance. Others craved simple a midnight dessert venue.

Now, I’m not one to stay up late, but this is a great performing arts town, so I decided to put the question to food critic Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl: why don’t we have better late night offerings?

Her answer? We do! She says she hears this perception all the time, but the perception really isn’t accurate.